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Well, I'm speaking from a differed perspective. I imagine a little sister would be great if you were a sister yourself.

I never had a biological brother, only the two younger sisters... and they were nightmares and a half. That is to say, they were three nightmares combines...

Speaking as a Big Sister and Eldest, they're all annoying. I'm not exactly much of a girl either, so Little Sister's the 'girliest' girl in the house (she has two cute posters and once wore a skirt of her own free will to a non-formal event).
Little Sisters are shrill and annoying.Especially when they're the baby of the family.
The only people younger than her on the maternal side of the family are great-grandchildren! The oldest of which is . . . eight.
Baby Sisters get away with everything. And it's the Bigger Sister that gets all the blame.

At least we don't get into physical altercations more than five or six times a year.

Originally Posted by Thufir

Blanket statement is hurtful. I wasn't that bad... Well, at least I knew when to stop being annoying...

You have any Little Siblings?
If yes, then you know how annoying they always are.
If no, Little Siblings are always annoying. Sometimes they can be endearingly so, or simply annoying as a catchy song can be annoying.

From this thread:

Originally Posted by Archonic Energy

Heh, I'll just have one more turn...
What do you mean it's 4am and I've got work in 3 hrs...
Just one more turn.

College Husband is a Civ lover and I know he's been looking forward to Civ V. A lot.
And he'll have got it maybe a day or two ago. Iust in time to go back to uni. I predict many a sleepless night.
Not to mention that I got to play Civ IV for a few weeks back in March or so. I lost ten hours to that game in my first sitting.
In my case it was a "Well, it must be dinner time now, I've probably been playing for a couple of hours." *looks at clock* "Four in the morning?! I have a lecture at nine and I haven't done any reading for tomorrow's class!"
Fantastic game, but it steals time.

College Husband is a Civ lover and I know he's been looking forward to Civ V. A lot.
And he'll have got it maybe a day or two ago. Iust in time to go back to uni. I predict many a sleepless night.
Not to mention that I got to play Civ IV for a few weeks back in March or so. I lost ten hours to that game in my first sitting.
In my case it was a "Well, it must be dinner time now, I've probably been playing for a couple of hours." *looks at clock* "Four in the morning?! I have a lecture at nine and I haven't done any reading for tomorrow's class!"
Fantastic game, but it steals time.

What saddens me is that my perennial Civ favorite, Germany, is likely to NOT be my favorite in this game...

And, ahh, Civ V. I got it the same day it was released (last Friday), but I still haven't played it especially much (I blame little brother for hogging it, despite it being my game and mine alone. However, I'm not going to shove him away like he does to littlest brother, because I really don't want to sink to his level).

What saddens me is that my perennial Civ favorite, Germany, is likely to NOT be my favorite in this game...

Oh? How so?

What saddens me is that it's not as lucid as it used to be, that the automated citizen allocation only seems to focus on food production and nothing else, and that the AI can be plain stupid at times, despite your chosen difficulty.

ION: I've picked up my game of Riven which has been on rest in at least half a year (can't really remember, it's probably more). I've made some progress, but some of these puzzles are hard as hell, and the running around is more time-consuming than Pokémon pre-Fly.

Clouddreamer Teddy by me, high above the world, far beyond its matters...

What saddens me is that it's not as lucid as it used to be, that the automated citizen allocation only seems to focus on food production and nothing else, and that the AI can be plain stupid at times, despite your chosen difficulty.

I don't find the AI particularly dull on the higher difficulties, and the automation will favor food over any other, but you are free to toggle to a different city focus, and the city will adjuster their workers to fit that. Also, manual allocation is still allowed.

Also... Germany's ability, Furor Teutonicus, is only useful in the early stage of the game, and then it's debatable. I cleared well over a dozen barbarian encampments, defeating a barbarian unit that was stationed on a camp, and only got 2 units to join me despite the 50% rate... very disappointing.

I don't find the AI particularly dull on the higher difficulties, and the automation will favor food over any other, but you are free to toggle to a different city focus, and the city will adjuster their workers to fit that. Also, manual allocation is still allowed.

Well, I haven't gotten into any war yet in my game (Prince difficulty), and my little brother is only playing on Warlord difficulty, but there, it's happened multiple times that the AI ignores exposed Cannons next to their units in favour of fully functional Riflemen, and I've read that it's the same way in the higher difficulties. Yeah, I really should play a bit more before passing a judgement.

And I know that I can toggle the focus, but I'm pretty averse to using them thanks to Civ IV being a bit too focused when one is picked (practically stopping growth for production, for example), and the standard focus is supposed to be balanced. There isshould be a reason to there being a growth focus too, after all

Originally Posted by TwoBitWriter

Also... Germany's ability, Furor Teutonicus, is only useful in the early stage of the game, and then it's debatable. I cleared well over a dozen barbarian encampments, defeating a barbarian unit that was stationed on a camp, and only got 2 units to join me despite the 50% rate... very disappointing.

Well, the special ability might not be the best, but the Landsknecht is really fast to build, and the Panzer is a good late-game unit. Some of the other nations doesn't really have that amazing powers either.

On Christmas comming early, I haven't seen any Christmas decorations yet, but I can bet all I own on the first comming up before the first snowfall here in my town. Now, it would actually be possible to bet on wether there has been any snowfall at all before Christmas itself... and I won't be so stupid as to bet everything I own either. :P

Clouddreamer Teddy by me, high above the world, far beyond its matters...